Door stop and lock



F. AND 0. PAULUS.

DOOR STOP AND LOCK.

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FRED PAULUS AND OSCAR PAUL'US, OE HARVARD, NEBRASKA.

DOOR STGP AND LOCK.

Application filed. April 15. 1919.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FRED PA'ULUS and Oscar. PAULUS, citizens of the United States, residing at Harvard, in the county of Clay and the State of Nebraska, have invented a new and useful Door Stop and Look, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to means for latching or holding doors in an opened position, and particularly to a device intended to be applied to garage and barn doors, gates or like structures for holding them open.

The general object of this invention is to provide a cheap and simply constructed device of this character which will permit the easy opening of the door but which, when the door is opened to its full extent, will latch the door in its open position and hold the door braced against the action of wind.

Other objects will appear in the course of the following description.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a fragmentary perspective view of a portion of a door casing and a door with this invention applied thereto;

Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view of the door and door casing, the door holding device being shown partly in section.

Referring to these drawings, it will be seen that the door holding device comprises a rod 1 and a coacting rod 2. The rod 1 is shown as rectangular in plan and made of a relatively thin but rigid strip of metal, angularly bent at one end, as at 5, this angularly bent end being perforated for the passage of the rod 2, which is circular in cross section. The rod 2 passes freely through the opening in the ear 5 and at one end is formed with a rectangular collar 4 integral with the rod and embracing and sliding upon the bar or rod 1. Intermediate the ends of the rod 1 and preferably disposed adjacent the end of the rod 1 opposite the ear 5, the rod 1 is formed with a downwardly extending notch 3 adapted to receive the upper portion of the collar 4i when the collar 4 is moved into register with this notch. The rod 2 at its extremity remote from the collar 4 is formed with an eye 6 which is swingingly engaged with an I-bolt 8 extending through the door casin The rod 1 at its end remote from the ear 5 with an I-bolt 9. These I-bolts 8 and 9 are Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 13, 1920.

Serial 210. 290,308.

disposed with their eyes in horizontal planes.

The operation of this device will be evident trom what has gone before. lVhen the door is closed, as illustrated in the figures, the rods slide upon each other to the position shown in Fig. 1, but when the door is opened, the rods will telescope on each other, the ear 5 traveling along the rod 2 and the collar i traveling along the rod 1 until it reaches the notch 3, when the collar 5 will drop by gravity into the notch, thus latching the door in its opened position and holding the door against any accidental movement. Now it it be desired to unlatch and close the door, it is only necessary to lift the collar 4 out of engagement with the notch 3 and push the door closed. This may be accomplished if the door he turned back upon the casing by' simply taking hold of the rod 2 and lifting it, which will bring the two rods into alinement and carry the collar & out of the notch 3. Then the door may be closed in the manner described. The I-bolts 8 and 9 permit the free movement of the parts 1 and 2, both as regards the downward movement of these members when the collar l enters the notch 3 and the angular movement of these members relative to the door and casing.

We claim 1.. A device of the character described comprising a rod and a flat strip having telescopic engagement with each other, one adapted to be attached to a closure member, and the other to the closure casing, one end of the rod being extended in right angular relation to the rod and formed into a collar adapted to surround the strip, said collar being slidable on the strip, one end of the strip being extended in right angular relation to the strip and slidably disposed on the rod, said strip having a notch adapted to receive the collar or the rod, and eyebolts on the outer extremities of the rod and strip on which the rod and strip oscillate, whereby said rod and strip are disposed in a plane parallel to the surface of the closure member and closure casing when the closure is closed, and in angular relation to the closure and closure casing when the closure is opened.

2. The combination with a closure and a closure casing to which the closure is hinged, of an eye-bolt carried by the closure, an eye-bolt carried by the closure casing, said eye-bolts being disposed in a horizontal plane, and a rod and a strip movably connected at their outer ends to said eye-bolts for oscillating movement in a horizontal plane between said eye-bolts, the inner end of the rod surrounding and slidably engaging the strip, the inner end of the :strip surrounding and slidably engaging the rod, said rod and strip being disposed in parallel relation to each other at all times.

3. A closure latching device comprising a rod and metal strip movably connected at their outer ends to aclosure and closure casing respectively, for oscillating movement in a horizontal plane and in parallel relation to each other at all times, the inner end of the strip being angularly extended and provided with an opening for engagement with the rod, the inner end of the rod being flattened, angularly extended, and formed into a rectangular collar for slidable engagement with the strip, a notch in said strip adapted to receive the collar, said strip and rod being disposed in a plane parallel to the outer surface of the closure and closure casing when at the limit of their outward movement, and in angular relation to the surface of the closure and closure casing when at the limit of their telescopic movement. 7

FRED PAULUS. OSCAR PAULUS, 

